The Death of God is a moment in substance’s becoming-subject
Evidence
The farewell to this renunciation, to the death of God, would only be the first moment of the negation, a first negation which must double itself and return in itself as a farewell to this farewell, that is to say as a death of death itself (mors mortis, Luther’s expression which seems to me, more literally than any other, since it concerns the very death of God, to justify the syntagm of this farewell to farewell, of this farewell to the farewell to God, etc.). Inasmuch as we must pass through the death of God and by the name of God in order to think the negation of the negation, the speculative idealism would also represent a gigantic effort, in truth a superhuman effort, to understand, with the name of God, of course, what we say when we say ‘farewell’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 156 (
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Divine self-presence is interrupted, or rather opened up, by an inner distance. We can interpret this through the concept of the substance-subject and its movement, a movement in which God negates himself as immediate and substantial power, positing himself as other in the Incarnation which sees his birth as ‘subject’, before returning in the form of singularity to absolute substance. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 858 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Death of God articulates the Crucifixion with modern subjectivity together — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 757; Thinking the negation of negation requires passing through the death of God — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 156; Incarnation instantiates the substance-subject movement within God himself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 858 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Thinking the negation of negation requires passing through the death of God
#expands(0.88) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 156 - Speculative philosophy must repeat the historical death of God in thought
#expands(0.85) - Incarnation instantiates the substance-subject movement within God himself
#expands(0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 858 - God is both the subject doing the exposition and the subject being constituted
#expands(0.80) - God gives subjectivity its temporal form and receives back kenosis’s echo
#expands(0.80) - Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation
#corroborates(0.80) - God’s death is the thought that negation strikes the eternal itself.
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 779 - The theology of God’s death transferred into philosophy’s absolutizing of finitude.
#qualifies(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 784 - The death of God can be read as God saying farewell to himself
#complicates(0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 148 - Icon worshipers unknowingly enacted God’s death through representation
#corroborates(0.72) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 15